excoriate

“But Daddy I Love Him” is the album’s finest cut: a garment-rending folk-rock melodrama in which Swift seems to excoriate her audience for its disapproval of her and Healy’s affair.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2024

It’s easy to criticize the media for overemphasizing someone’s prison exposure, and easier still to excoriate prosecutors for sweetheart deals.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2023

Jackson hasn’t come here to excoriate the 1 percent, yet I found myself wondering how this novel might look through Berta’s lens.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 7, 2023

Contributing to a debate in parliament last month MP Sam George, a prominent critic of the project, quoted the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament to excoriate the government.

From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2023

“We need to take care of this. It’s too far gone. We have to excoriate the skin and replace your G-tube to purge the infection.”

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott

But the outpouring of sympathy from the British people, including the “political class” Mr. Swaim excoriates, was immediate and sympathetic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

These omissions feel particularly glaring in light of how Aly excoriates the scholars of the era for viewing the islanders as history-less primitives who simply “died out” after contact with the modern world.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2023

Allison Hussey of Pitchfork writes, "Lynn's most enduring songs are frank and ferocious, where she excoriates double standards and sexist assumptions with a smile."

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2022

China, which has been racing to implement one of the world’s toughest data privacy regimes, frequently excoriates companies for mishandling data.

From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2022

The "original Doctor Jacobs" excoriates unmercifully the whole tribe of swindlers whose rascalities debauch and bring odium upon the trade.

From The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: Real life by Julian Hawthorne

District Judge April Perry excoriated prosecutors for using illegal tactics to get the criminal charges past a skeptical grand jury, dressing down U.S.

From Slate ● May 22, 2026

Now, Warsh will find himself on the inside again, working with the people he’s excoriated.

From MarketWatch ● May 13, 2026

For LGB dissenters, many of whom grew up closeted and relied on acceptance among their peers, being excoriated by their gay and lesbian communities is particularly painful.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

In case anyone missed the viral video that has made him something of a folk hero to many in D.C. and around the country, Dunn loudly excoriated a small group of U.S.

From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2025

A few scientists had challenged Meggers’s ideas; Roosevelt excoriated them from top to bottom.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Arday, who was appointed in a blaze of publicity in 2023 as the youngest-ever black professor to Cambridge University, was found dead on Friday, aged 41, after weeks of excoriating media reports.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

While excoriating the loss of his visa, López Beltrán also painted a dystopian picture of present-day life north of the border.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

That is what makes Hawaiʻi Supreme Court Justice Todd Eddins’ excoriating assessment of the term so valuable.

From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026

“Rebel English Academy” reprises the excoriating humor of that debut, but only erratically.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

Sarai uncovered her eyes and found Great Ellen restored to human form, the excoriating hawk gaze replaced by a piercing but compassionate human one.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor